Your Favorite Stargate Design

[JME2]

So, with SGU's inaugural season over, we've had a year to look at the latest design and operation of the franchise's latest titular device. What would you consider your favorite gate design? For this purpose of this poll, I'm throwing in the 3 main series gates, not the variants we've seen across the years.

For me, it has to be the Pegasus gates; the design is the one that makes the most sense for an galactic portal network.

[Temujin]

For comparison:
Milky Way stargate
Pegasus stargate
Universe stargate

Anyway, I have to agree with you regarding the look of Pegasus' chevrons, but I prefer the overall look of Destiny's.

[adam_grif]

When things spin, science happens. Ergo, the destiny gates have the most SCIENCE. Unfortunately, they have the most pathetic range ever seen on a stargate, so I'm going to give it to the Milky Way gates.

[JME2]

Thanks for throwing up the comparison pics, Temujin.

And my god, that was bad grammar in my first post; sorry 'bout that.

[ShadowOfMadness]

When things spin, science happens. Ergo, the destiny gates have the most SCIENCE. Unfortunately, they have the most pathetic range ever seen on a stargate, so I'm going to give it to the Milky Way gates.

LOL

I like the Destiny Gate, although only because when standing still it looks cool.

[sirocco]

I'd say Earth gate because :

When things spin, science happens. Ergo, the destiny gates have the most SCIENCE. Unfortunately, they have the most pathetic range ever seen on a stargate, so I'm going to give it to the Milky Way gates.

Yeah it spins and can dial the 8th chevron addresses!

[Bilbo]

Milkyway gates are my preference.

I would like an explanation on the steam blasts after the Destiny gate is used. Is there a reason why the steam is not vented out of the room? It would be nice if there was a throwaway line where Rush says its not steam but an Ancient decontamination system that sprays every time the gate is used. That would at least make sense.

[Themightytom]

I prefer the user friendly Milky Way gates. They have pictogram so primitive people are comffortable with the symbols, they can be dialed manually by spinning them after attaching a power source. The non spinning Atlantis gate by comparison might never have been identified as a device at all when discovered at Giza sans DHD. The Destiny gates are just confusing to look at.

"Quick major dial the gate"
"Ok lets see Bump bump BUMP... B BUMP BUMP bump...shit or was that BUMp bump BUMP..."

[Teleros]

Voting for the classic SG1 gates as well. The SGA gates just... didn't really work for me, and the SGU gates seem to be more of the same.

[Temujin]

Wouldn't the Milky Way gates be younger than the Pegasus gates? They're both younger than Destiny's.

Perhaps the Ancients designed them to be more user friendly for the Milky Way races. They obviously couldn't, and wouldn't do this in the Pegasus Galaxy with the Wraith in control.

[PREDATOR490]

Atlantis gates are better looking and streamlined in their use with the lack in waiting for the earlier gates to 'spin' into position for dialing. Quiet too without the rotating mechanism as well. Somewhat irrelevant though since the Atlantis gates are the final evolution of their design thus they become more intricate and advanced. The earlier gates are more robust and simple as would be expected.

[Themightytom]

Wouldn't the Milky Way gates be younger than the Pegasus gates? They're both younger than Destiny's.

Perhaps the Ancients designed them to be more user friendly for the Milky Way races. They obviously couldn't, and wouldn't do this in the Pegasus Galaxy with the Wraith in control.

The Destiny's are the oldest and least advanced, the Atlantis gates are the most advanced we've seen and take precedence whenever the two are together. Not sure where the ori gates fit into all of this.


This one sucks though.

[JME2]

Not sure where the ori gates fit into all of this.

That's why I wish that scene of Amelius in AoT had not made it into the final film. It would have just been easier to have had the gates (and the ring transporters too) designed before the Alteran's split.

And yeah, the Aschen gate sucks. Kinda like the Aschen themselves.

[Bilbo]

Not sure where the ori gates fit into all of this.

That's why I wish that scene of Amelius in AoT had not made it into the final film. It would have just been easier to have had the gates (and the ring transporters too) designed before the Alteran's split.

And yeah, the Aschen gate sucks. Kinda like the Aschen themselves.

The Aschen? I did not realize that they ever buil their own gate. That would be interesting since they barely understood the stargate system and knew only a few addresses.

Or are you thinking of the Tollan who, as far as I know, are the only people we have ever seen besides the Ancients to actually build a gate.

Yes, the scene in that movie makes no sense. It suggests that the gate system was in very early theory stage when the Ancients left. If this is true then there remained enough communication between the Ori and the Alterans for the technical information to be traded back and forth. This would have to be very detailed information for the two gate systems to work together.

[JME2]

Or are you thinking of the Tollan who, as far as I know, are the only people we have ever seen besides the Ancients to actually build a gate.

Yes, I meant the Tollan.

Yes, the scene in that movie makes no sense. It suggests that the gate system was in very early theory stage when the Ancients left. If this is true then there remained enough communication between the Ori and the Alterans for the technical information to be traded back and forth. This would have to be very detailed information for the two gate systems to work together.

The only possible explanation that makes sense is if there was a loyal Ori follow hidden among the departing Alterans - someone who passed on the technical specification of the Gates before losing contact. This same individual or individuals may also have brought along samples of the Ori plague and unleashed it on the Ancients once they had established themselves in the Milky Way.

[Bilbo]

Or are you thinking of the Tollan who, as far as I know, are the only people we have ever seen besides the Ancients to actually build a gate.

Yes, I meant the Tollan.

Yes, the scene in that movie makes no sense. It suggests that the gate system was in very early theory stage when the Ancients left. If this is true then there remained enough communication between the Ori and the Alterans for the technical information to be traded back and forth. This would have to be very detailed information for the two gate systems to work together.

The only possible explanation that makes sense is if there was a loyal Ori follow hidden among the departing Alterans - someone who passed on the technical specification of the Gates before losing contact. This same individual or individuals may also have brought along samples of the Ori plague and unleashed it on the Ancients once they had established themselves in the Milky Way.

The other option is that the Ori "gods" passed along the information on things like the Stargate to their followers. But this doesnt make sense because as Orlan implied each group of Ascended beings shield their own galaxy from other Ascended beings.

[Themightytom]

Yes, the scene in that movie makes no sense. It suggests that the gate system was in very early theory stage when the Ancients left. If this is true then there remained enough communication between the Ori and the Alterans for the technical information to be traded back and forth. This would have to be very detailed information for the two gate systems to work together.

The only possible explanation that makes sense is if there was a loyal Ori follow hidden among the departing Alterans - someone who passed on the technical specification of the Gates before losing contact. This same individual or individuals may also have brought along samples of the Ori plague and unleashed it on the Ancients once they had established themselves in the Milky Way.

Oh please that doesn't look even remotely like my writing style, there aren't even any typos...

Does anyone have a screen cap of an Ori Stargate? I think there was one in Avalon when a prior stepped through but Gateworld doesn't have it. I believe they look like the milky way gates. What could have happened was the initial design was a sketch for the user friendly model. The intention was to promote free will by encouraging interaction between seeded human civilizations and exposure to new ideas and perspectives from diverse human cultures.

The Destiny gates as a forerunner could have been more utilitarian to get the gates perfected, or they could have been superficially different because the ancients expected nonhuman life to find them, given that destiny was being sent to unknown galaxies. There might have been an earlier version of the milky Way gates that looked like the ones we see in SG-1 but were technologically comparable to the Destiny gates, then as technology improved new gates, visually identical replaced the old.

The Destiny gates could be from an entirely different project as well and the limitations on range was intentional to avoid the potential security risk that dropping gates off willy nilly would represent.

I think there are plenty off clues that the Ori visited Milky Way and wiped out the first Ancient civilization with a plague, if its not directly stated, its certainly been set up as a story waiting to happen. They seemed to have gate addresses for Milky Way, and the Ori were pissed when they found out about the Milky Way, maybe they thought they had killed everything off and were furious that the ancients had rebuilt it and hidden this fact from them. During the period where they wiped out all life, they probably copied the gate design verbatim, if they didn't steal a bunch outright. Thats where that intergalactic dialing feature would have become awkward.

"We are perfectly safe, the only gates capable of dialing intergalactic distances ae in THIS galaxy."
"Well some fucker just stole one."
"Loki's Smegma! We better get the hell out of here, whats cooking in "egasus?"

[JME2]

Sorry about the formatting, Tom. I wasn't paying attention.

[NecronLord]

Oh please that doesn't look even remotely like my writing style, there aren't even any typos...

Does anyone have a screen cap of an Ori Stargate? I think there was one in Avalon when a prior stepped through but Gateworld doesn't have it. I believe they look like the milky way gates.

There wasn't. You may be thinking of their nice looking rings?


Myself, I am a big fan of the Destiny stargate. Love the weird little power-up chime they have when activated.

[Chris OFarrell]

Why can't I vote for the one MacGyver built?

[adam_grif]

MacGuyver was in SG1, and he did not build that gate.

[JME2]

[Themightytom]

MacGuyver was in SG1, and he did not build that gate.

That one was actually built by Young Indiana Jones.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Im going with SG1 gates. Gotta love a classic.

But I do like the mini gate Orlin built. DIY rules.

"lots of raw titanium, lots of carbon steel, and a toaster"

[Themightytom]

Im going with SG1 gates. Gotta love a classic.

But I do like the mini gate Orlin built. DIY rules.

"lots of raw titanium, lots of carbon steel, and a toaster"

A toaster with seven degrees of toastiness of course, so you can get where your going..